Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Rev. President (Lew Rockwell)

Thanksgiving is an alarming federal holiday. The beloved first presidential proclamation had Geo. Washington pretending to be a religious leader, and exhorting Americans to ask God to bless the government. Abe Lincoln issued the most famous diktat, calling Americans to thank God for the Union and its bloody war. Geo. Bush calls on Americans to thank God for the current warfare state and its federal employees.

It was Lincoln who first used the federalday as war propaganda, spreading the myth of America as founded in Massachusetts in 1620, i.e. the North. In fact, the first English Thanksgiving was in the South, at Jamestown, Virginia. The real first Thanksgiving, however, antedated Jamestown and was held by the Spanish in Florida. So Feliz Dia de Accion de Gracias.

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My wonderful wife Sarah and I homeschool our four kids and live in a suburb of the Twin Cities. I'm just trying to help spread the message of peace and personal liberty! I can be reached at chris_minnesota [at] yahoo [dot] com.